@parkroseperma.bsky.social | Parkrose Permaculture: "I think I finally get why so many people in the US don't see how bad it is here." | #History #NaziGermany #ErnstFraenkel #DerDoppelstaat #TheDualState #ParallelLegalSystems #NormalState #PrerogativeState #SCOTUS
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Targeted hysteria focused on Muslims. We’ve seen it before with shockingly close parallels.
Lawyer Gareth Pierce represented the Guildford Four (Irish) stitched up on manufactured evidence, then Muslims post 911.
State targeting is an attack on rule of law.
#dualState #prerogativeState

Judge tears apart Trump prosecutors for omitting crucial info CNN reports a federal judge tore into the Justice Department on Friday for failing to inform him of a law that could have undermined a federal search warrant. The law that government lawyers omitted a...

If you are an attorney working for DOJ right now, you are prostituting your legal career for the prerogative state. This is not normal. To understand the difference, read The Dual State by Ernst Fraenkel. #attorney #law #justice #prerogativestate #DOJ #TheDualState

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Rule of law has been badly undermined in the United States, though not gone. The USA long ago adopted the #dualState described by German Jewish lawyer, #ErnstFraenkel It is baked into its constitution.

#normativeState for white, cis, gendered landowning men. A #prerogativeState for everyone else.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there. Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

"A dual state is a legal artifice of authoritarianism, and under Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court inflated the powers of the president in case after case, as critics warned that the justices were paving the way to autocracy."

#PrerogativeState

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The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there. Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

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#dualstate
#law
#Authoritarianism
#prerogativestate
#supremecourt

Is America Headed Towards a "Dual State" Like Nazi Germany? The article "America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State" draws parallels between the current political situation in the United States and the rise of Nazi Germany, using Ernst Fraenkel's concept of the "dual state" as a framework[5]. Fraenkel, a Jewish labor lawyer who fled Nazi Germany in 1938, wrote "The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship," which explains how the Nazi regime maintained a capitalist economy with stable laws while simultaneously establishing a domain of lawlessness and state violence[5]. The dual state consists of two coexisting parts: 1. The "normative state": The regular legal system with rules, procedures, and precedents[5]. 2. The "prerogative state": A parallel zone where "unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees" reign[5]. The article argues that the United States is witnessing the birth of a new dual state under the Trump administration. While the normative state continues to function for most citizens, a prerogative state is being constructed through various measures, including: - Pardons that encourage insurrectionary violence - Purges of career lawyers and officials - Appointments of loyalists to key positions - Attacks on judges enforcing the law - Threats of criminal prosecutions for unfavorable speech[5] The author warns that the danger of the dual state lies in its capacity for targeted suppression. Most people can ignore the prerogative state because it doesn't affect their daily lives, but once established, it can potentially engulf anyone[5]. The article concludes by noting that building a dual state doesn't necessarily lead to genocide, citing examples like Putin's Russia and Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. However, it emphasizes that the deepest similarity among these systems is their intolerance of political dissent while leaving the majority of citizens undisturbed[5].

Citations: [1] https://www.europenowjournal.org/2022/03/23/legal-sabotage-ernst-fraenkel-in-hitlers-germany-by-douglas-g-morris/ [2] https://www.theatlantic.com [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_state_(model) [4] https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/09/05/polarization-democracy-and-political-violence-in-united-states-what-research-says-pub-90457 [5] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/ [6] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/reinventing-america/556856/ [7] https://www.lawbookexchange.com/pages/books/56961/ernst-fraenkel-e-a-shil/the-dual-state-a-contribution-to-the-theory-of-dictatorship [8] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocrats-are-winning/620526/ [9] https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1906&context=uclrev #DualState #NaziGermany #ErnstFraenkel #TrumpAdministration #PoliticalDissent #NormativeState #PrerogativeState #Lawlessness #StateViolence #PoliticalParallels #USPolitics #Authoritarianism #TargetedSuppression #PoliticalViolence #ConstitutionalCrisis #LegalSystem #PoliticalLoyalists #Insurrection #JudicialAttacks #PoliticalPurges #USGovernance #HistoricalParallels #PoliticalAnalysis #DemocracyThreats #PoliticalIntolerance

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The CEOs who paid for & attended #Trump’s second inauguration can look forward to the courts being open for the ordinary business of #capitalism. So, too, can many citizens who pay little attention to politics expect to be unscarred by the #PrerogativeState. The normal criminal-justice system […]